Newspaper-vending machine.



A. CAMPBELL.

NEWSPAPER VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1913.

1, 126,702. Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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A. CAMPBELL.

NEWSPAPER VENDING MACHINE APPLICATION FILED NOV-28, 1913- Patented Fb.2,1915.

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ALFONSO CAMPBELL, OE MEXICO, MEXICO.

NEWSPAPER-VENDING FIACI-IINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

Application filed November 28, 1918. Serial No. 803,537.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFONSO CAMPBELL, a citizen of the Mexican Republic, residing at 3 Colonia street, No. 31, city of Mexico, Mexico, have invented new and useful Improvements in Newspaper- Vending Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved coin freed machine for selling newspapers.

In a machine constructed in accordance with my invention the folded Papers are piled upon a plate up through a hole in which project lugs upon a pair of chains passing around guide pulleys and sprocket wheels fast with which latter is a disk or the like adapted to be connected by a coin or coins to the actuating handle which projects outside the casing so that on the illsertion of a coin and the rotation of the handle, the chains will move and the lugs will engage and feed through an opening in the case the lowest paper of the pile.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings Figure 1 of which is a front view with part of the casing broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the mechanism. Fig. 3 is a right hand side elevation thereof. Fig. 4 shows a side elevation of a disk forming part of the mechanism for actuating the feed devices. Figs. 5 and 6 show elevations of opposite ends of a coin-receiving piece, forming part of this mechanism. Fig. 7 is an end view of the same. Fig. 8 is a plan view of a plate for supporting the newspapers. Fig. 9 shows a side elevation thereof.

1 is a casing having a space 2 in its upper portion in which is placed the name of the newspaper to be sold; another opening 3 in which the word Empty appears when the magazine is in such a state; a slot 4 by which the coins that Work the mechanism are introduced; a delivery opening 5 by which the newspaper comes out; a side door 6 by which the coins'collected may be removed, a door 7 that serves for the introduction of the papers, and a spring retracted knob 8 that serves to operate the mechanism.

The newspapers are piled in the upper part of the casing and are supported on a plate 9 which has in it an opening 10 through which project lugs 11 on chains 12 which pass around sprocket wheels 13 and pulleys 14 so arranged that the upper parts of the chains are substantially hori- Zontal.

Fast on the shaft 131 of the. sprocket wheels is a disk 15 having in it two recesses 16 in which engages a spring detent 17 pivoted to the frame. In line with the shaft 131 is the shaft 18 of the handle or knob 8 which projects from the front of the casing. This shaft is connected to the frame or casing by a spring 19 and has on its inner end a piece 20 provided with stops 21 which impinge upon the frame and limit its movement and having on its inner face a groove 22 that is wider in the upper portion than in the lower, for the purpose of receiving coins of different thickness. At difierent heights are holes 23 into which can be inserted a pin 24 on which can rest the lowest of the required number of coins of the thinner class, according to the price of the newspaper. On the front face of the disk 15 are two pairs of studs 25 so arranged that a coin 26 of the thicker class which has been inserted in the slot s and guided by a chute 27 lodges in the upper portion of the groove 22 (or the top one of the proper number of coins resting on the lower coin or coins, while the bottom one rests on the pin 24) and also rests between the studs of one pair 25 and thus connects the disk to the piece 20. When therefore the knob is turned in the direction of the arrow so far as it is allowed by the stops 21 that is half a revolution, the disk is also turned through half a revolution and the upper portions of the chains are therefore moved to the left and the lugs upon them push the lowermost paper to the left and out through the opening 5, past a door 28 which is so weighted that it shuts behind the paper as soon as the latter is removed. The coin or coins now falls or fall out of the groove onto an incline 29 which conducts them to a tray 30 and on the release of the knob 8 the spring 19 returns it and the piece 20 to their original position.

In addition to the recesses 16 and detent 17 for preventing movement of the disk in the wrong direction, a ratchet 31 may be provided on the rear wheel engaging with a detent 32.

In order to adjust the height of the plate 9 its right hand end is supported on a iece 33 which can be clamped to the frame while the left hand end is supported by the casing. By adjusting this T piece the plate can be tilted at such an angle thatthe tops of the lugs 11 while engaging the lowest paper of the pile are clear of that next above it.

34 is a follower resting on the pile of papers and carrying a piece 35 which bears the word Empty and turns down against a spring 36 when the follower is near the top of the casing.

What I claim is In an operating device for vending machines, the combination of a casing, a handle, a member fast with the handle and having in it a coin-receiving groove of which groove the upper portion is wider than the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing th lower portion and the width of which up per portion is approximately the same as the tion of which groove is less than thethickness.

of the thickest coins received but slightly greater than the thickness of thinner coins, a disk, studs on the disk having a coin-re ceiving space between them, a chute delivering a coin to the groove and studs, and an adjustable stop-pin extending transversely across the groove in the handle member.

ALFONSO CAMPBELL.

, Witnesses:

R. B. RANsFoRD,

J. H. WHITEHEAD. r

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. O. 1 

